Rant

Sep 15, 2009 09:43

This is probably something really inanely trivial, but I feel like complaining about it anyway ( Read more... )

rant, stupid people, egg, d&d

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palmer_kun September 15 2009, 20:48:01 UTC
I sort of thought that was a silly thing to do because what if life threw you a curve ball and you couldn't write the POV. You'd suffer for it. But that's just me.

Not just you. This sort of thing has been around almost as long as D&D... bonus XP for extra activities. Hell, older editions outright encouraged it, having tables for individual XP awards in the DMG and everything.

I like everyone to be moving along at the same clip, so I don't do these things. But the concept is still very much the norm among "serious roleplayers". On one mailing list I read, someone is designing a game entirely based around this, where there are explicit awards for performing specific RP.

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acdragonmaster September 15 2009, 22:27:58 UTC
The GM for the Exalted game I play in does the bonus EXP for extra stuff thing, but by "extra stuff" he means like... doing a whole bluebook, or drawing art of peoples' characters, or so on. Things that actually require a little effort and creativity. Plus he doesn't hand out a ton of extra EXP for it, either, just a little, so it more encourages people to do extra side stuff that everyone ends up enjoying than anything.

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